Almost a year later, the president's top security advisers approached him and suggested that intelligence officials may have located the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan.

The city of Kherson in southern Ukraine is a key objective for Russia. Its military shells the city's neighborhoods daily and ...

long-time al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri walked out onto the balcony of a downtown Kabul compound - reportedly a favourite post-prayer activity of the veteran Egyptian jihadist. It would be the ...

In our own times, Ayman al-Zawahiri—second general emir of al-Qaeda and a physician—was typical of the breed, with other representatives including George Habash of the Popular Front for the ...